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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Yngwie is BAD ASS!!!!
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GDavis
Trad climber
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I saw a CD in a clearance rack with the cover art consisting of a man shooting a dragon with lazers from his guitar. This was to be my introduction to yngwie malmsteen... solely based on his album cover art! Great stuff tho.
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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I always enjoyed yngwie's guitar work until the high pitch vocals started up.
That's what killed YES for me and many other bands.
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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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Yngwie Malmsteen is incredible but for technicality check out Paul Gilbert he makes Yngwie Malmsteen and Steve Morse seem clumsy on the fret board.
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the Fet
Supercaliyosemistic climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Aug 20, 2009 - 06:46pm PT
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I like how he goes by Yngwie J. Malmsteen, so you don't cofuse him with all the other Yngwie Malmsteens in the business. -David St. Hubbins
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Porkchop_express
Trad climber
the base of the Shawangunk Ridge
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Aug 20, 2009 - 07:11pm PT
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Malmsteen can shred but if youve heard him once, youve heard most of what he can do...its awesome but not very broad. Joe Satriani and Steve Vai ultimately get my votes even though Mr Malmsteen got me into the whole shred metal sound...
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Aug 20, 2009 - 07:13pm PT
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I had the privledge of seeing Steve Morse in concert. He was opening for Stu Hamm, and Steve was chatting with the audience between tunes, tuning his guitar. His playing was amazing, and his finale piece, just blew us away.
In college my roomate got me into Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Yngwie and Steve Morse. To me, Yngwie might have had the tecnnique and speed of the others, but his playing really lacked musicianship, sole, whatever you want to call it.
But looking at some of the G3 videos on youtube, I'd say Yngwie seems to have added that musicianship to his technique.
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nutjob
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Berkeley, CA
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Aug 20, 2009 - 08:07pm PT
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I was in Vegas once and happened to see that Steve Vai was playing in a little club within a casino. I bought the expensive tickets, and stood shoulder to shoulder with a 98% male crowd ogling him as their god, doing their own air guitars. Mostly they were sweaty, with shoulder-length dark hair. They varied from skinny to borderline-obese. I cannot say with authority, but most of them looked like they played Dungeons and Dragons regularly. I'll bet at least half of them had 4, 8, 12, and 20-sided dice in their pockets.
The music was fast, technically amazing (I can appreciate that part because I'm a guitarist), and there was a nice gimmick playing slide with a beer bottle as he jizzed it all over the front row, but overall it left a hollow and unsatisfying feeling in me. I did not feel among kindred brethren, nor did I feel spiritually or emotionally transported. I left early in disappointment, more looking forward to spend time with my family.
I kind of think Yngwie would be in this category for me. Amazing skills yes, but to what end? How can such dexterity, discipline, and passion, be coupled with such a depravity of musical sense? I guess I'm being quite conceited to project my musical preferences onto others. To each their own.
But I'm just sayin', if it had been Mark Knopfler or Santana in that little club, I would have been saying "what family?"
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Porkchop_express
Trad climber
the base of the Shawangunk Ridge
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Aug 20, 2009 - 08:43pm PT
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I think malmsteens appeal is all in the pirate shirt.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Aug 20, 2009 - 09:22pm PT
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Yngwie is a good guitarist, however, I've always preferred more tasteful, well placed riffs and breaks.
Jimmy Page (not a great guitarist but one of the best songwriters/guitar phrasing masters), Carlos Santana, Jimmy Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Stevie Ray, Michael Schenker (and Rudolf, his bro in the Scorpions), Ulrich Roth (early Scorp's), Eric Clapton, Dickie Betts, Dwayne Allman, LES PAUL, Randy Rhodes, Dave Murray, Robin Trower, Eddie Van Halen, etc....
So much beautiful guitar work, but it's all in the song-writing and phrasing, man.....
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Aug 20, 2009 - 09:27pm PT
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Jimmy Page was prolly the best at writing awesome guitar progresssions.
I'll stand by that.
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